Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

- Elfriede Jelinek

Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two…

- Elfriede Jelinek

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once consid…

- Elfriede Jelinek

Trust is fine, but control is better.

- Elfriede Jelinek

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

- Elfriede Jelinek

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

- Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

- Elfriede Jelinek

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

- Elfriede Jelinek

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

- Elfriede Jelinek